Example sentences of "are [vb pp] when the " in BNC.

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1 The affair seems to him to belong to the town , to have no future , and they are parted when the town comes under fear and hazard .
2 Increases are given when the husband or wife Teaches 65 , with a bigger increase still at 75 .
3 deictic : a. gestural b. symbolic 2. non-deictic : c. non-anaphoric d. anaphoric These difficulties are compounded when the phenomenon of deictic projection , or shifts from the egocentric centre , are taken into account ; and they are further multiplied by the interaction of the semantics of non-deictic categorizations of ( especially ) space and time with deictic modifiers .
4 ( All leading spaces are stripped when the line is originally entered . )
5 Resignations are expected when the DLV meet in Frankfurt today to discuss the aftermath of the Krabbe affair .
6 The rule laid down in article 6(1) therefore applies where the actions brought against the various defendants are related when the proceedings are instituted , that is to say where it is expedient to hear and determine them together in order to avoid the risk of irreconcilable judgments resulting from separate proceedings .
7 The Cattle of the Cottagers are impounded when the Forest is driven by the Keepers , as all other Cattle are ; and when the Owners take them from the Pound ( paying the usual Fees to the Keepers ) they turn them again into the Forest , having no other Means of maintaining them … the Cottagers … are detrimental to the Forest , by cutting Wood for Fuel , and for building Huts , and making Fences to the Patches which they inclose from the Forest ; by keeping Pigs , Sheep etc. in the Forest all the Year ; and by stealing Timber .
8 ‘ Nasals ’ , for example , is the name given to sounds which are made when the breath escapes through the nose .
9 Some writers use an engineering analogy and point out that the words ‘ stress ’ , ‘ strain ’ , ‘ tension ’ and ‘ pressure ’ are used when the load becomes too great and a breaking point is reached ; it is the point where the strain is so great that metal ceases to bend and it snaps .
10 Speakers are handicapped when the main entrance doors are behind them and every time they open , the audience 's eyes swivel in that direction and attention is gone .
11 After a positive test result the family practitioner and health visitor are contacted when the baby is about six weeks old to develop a social profile of the family and decide how best to approach them to offer a venous blood test to confirm or refute the screening test .
12 The cost in foregone earnings of bearing two children has been estimated at £119,000 if they are born when the mother is in her early 20s to £121,000 if they are born when the mother is in her mid-30s ( Joshi 1987a ) .
13 The cost in foregone earnings of bearing two children has been estimated at £119,000 if they are born when the mother is in her early 20s to £121,000 if they are born when the mother is in her mid-30s ( Joshi 1987a ) .
14 Not so at the Grand National , where the horses are assembled behind a fibre rope ( call a tape ) some 70 metres long , whose ends are hoisted when the race is signalled to begin .
15 Those who are hurt when the environment is degraded , and who stand to gain the most from sound policies , are often the poor and the weak .
16 This mechanism accounts at once for the observation that limbs are truncated when the thickened ridge at the tip of the bud is removed .
17 If the back scattering intensity is monitored as a function of α , steep rises are observed when the focused trajectories at the edge of the cone pass through the neighbouring atom .
18 Such mixture of affective psychosis and schizophrenia may be revealed in changes in the symptom profile that are observed when the person is studied over a period of time , or it may be evident within a single episode of illness .
19 The glass transition is not a first-order transition , in the thermodynamic sense , as no discontinuities are observed when the entropy or volume of the polymer are measured as a function of temperature .
20 How many are left when the deserters are gone ? ’
21 Some of these riverbank cave entrances are submerged when the river is in spate making their underground passages subject to sudden flooding .
22 In July rumours of a rift are fuelled when the princess spends an evening without her bodyguard , playing bridge with Old Etonian James Gilbey at his London flat .
23 These are attached when the bird is less than 10 days old , and as it grows the ring becomes impossible to remove .
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